Sting in the Tail
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| Studio album by Scorpions | ||||
| Released | 19 March 2010 (see release history) |
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| Recorded | May–December 2009 | |||
| Studio | Scorpio Sound Studio, and Vocal Land Studio, Germany The Garage Studio, and Atlantisstudion, , Sweden |
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| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 47:20 | |||
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Sony Music Germany New Door/UME (US) |
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| Producer | Mikael Nord Andersson, Martin Hansen | |||
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Sting in the Tail is the seventeenth studio album by German rock band Scorpions. It was released on 19 March 2010 in Europe (14 March in Greece) and on 23 March in North America. At the time it was a farewell album, released prior to their farewell tour.
In an interview, Rudolf Schenker explained that their goal was to update their sound from their classic period in the 1980s. He explained: "If you take the best song elements from the '80s albums, and put these on one album, you come up with the Sting in the Tail album. So in this case we tried to re-invent the Scorpions sound from the '80s, using the same DNA after putting in a modern twist, to make it sound like today's music."
The album features a duet on the song "The Good Die Young" with the Finnish symphonic metal singer Tarja Turunen, best known as the former lead vocalist of Nightwish.
A tentative title for the album was Humanity: Hour II, however this was eventually scrapped.
First week sales in the United States were 18,500 copies sold placing the album at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 chart. In Germany the album debuted at No. 2, but fell in its second week to No. 3, in France at No. 16 and in Greece at No. 1. The album also peaked at Number 2 on the Billboard Rock Charts.
The Get Your Sting and Blackout World Tour promoting the album was initially reported to be the band's last tour, though this proved not to be the case. In later interviews given after the tour had started, at least two band members (Klaus Meine and Matthias Jabs) stated that the band was not going to stop touring and was in fact, working on new material.
In the early April 2009, Scorpions fan club ScorpNews.com announced that Scorpions would have entered the studio in the fall of the same year to record a new album. A couple of weeks later Klaus Meine in an interview for Deutsche Welle officially confirmed that the band was working on new material. He explained that "after a very turbulent 2008 with 60 shows in 22 countries, we're now trying to breathe a bit and charge our batteries — but also to be creative". Two months later, the band had extended their record deal with Ariola.
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